Source: NPR BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN AND ASHLEY WESTERMAN With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting at home with some other women from her village in western Myanmar’s […]
Leader is asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country Jon Sharman 2 hours ago 2 comments Aung […]
Reuters International MAR 24, 2017 – A Rohingya refugee girl peeks through a hole made in a plastic wall dividing the shelters at Balu Kali Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to […]
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HTUSAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists in a Myanmar state wracked by religious violence protested Sunday against the government’s plan to give […]
Reuters International MAR 17, 2017 FILE PHOTO – The ruins of a market which was set on fire are seen at a Rohingya village outside Maugndaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo (reuters_tickers) UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China, backed by Russia, blocked a short […]
Source: Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert on Myanmar says she’s “disappointed” at the lack of “appetite” at the Human Rights Council to back her call for the […]
Source: BBC By Jonah Fisher Image captionThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority group from Myanmar A top UN official says “crimes against humanity” are being committed by the military and […]
Source: Time By Feliz Solomon / Lashio Mar 09, 2017 A steady stream of men, women and children arrive by the hundreds at Mansu Monastery in rural northeastern Myanmar. Each day […]
Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 – Pope Francis leads the Second Vespers at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside The Walls in Rome, Italy January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (reuters_tickers) VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a stinging criticism of atrocities against Myanmar’s minority Rohingyas, saying […]
Reuters International FEB 6, 2017 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply troubled” by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine State had committed atrocities against minority Muslims, the State Department said on Monday. Washington was still studying the report, but […]
RFA Saturday 28th January, 2017 Lacking adequate food, shelter and sanitation, many Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar are marrying local men in the hope of achieving citizenship and basic services. Such marriages are illegal, and often involve polygamy, child marriage or abandonment, BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online […]
Reuters International FEB 3, 2017 – FILE PHOTO – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives for a news conference at a mosque outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 5, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday sent off a […]
Please refer to the video showing the President of Myanmar opening the Book Fair: Report from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Myanmar: “The Glad Tiding Literature” run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Myanmar had successfully put up a 3 days book stall at the Nobel Myanmar Literary Festival […]
Reuters International JAN 5, 2017 – A Rohingya abandoned house is seen at U Shey Kya village outside Maungdaw, in Rakhine state, Myanmar October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) YANGON (Reuters) – Human rights groups said Myanmar’s government is trying to cover up abuses against civilians in a Muslim-majority […]
Source: Religion News Service By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR/YANGON (Reuters) An aid flotilla carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims will sail from Malaysia for Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State […]
Source: Aljazeera The headless body of a Muslim villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine state, Myanmar […]
Source: CNN By Emiko Jozuka and Manny Maung, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)Myanmar’s treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority threatens to undermine the region’s security and stability, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister said […]
Source: Dawn The coordinated attacks on Oct 9 killed nine policemen, and sparked a crackdown by security forces in the Muslim-majority north of Rakhine State in the country’s northwest.At least 86 people have been killed, according to state media, and the United Nations has estimated 27,000 members of the largely […]
Source: CNN Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization claims that the timing of the various incidents and their “spacial trends” offer evidence of a pattern that is “consistent with military operations and not […]
Source: AT Human rights groups accuse the country’s civil government, and its de facto head, the democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi, of turning a blind eye to communal violence in Rakhine State and Myanmese troops’ excesses against Rohingya Muslims. Those accusations are putting the EU in an awkward position, […]